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okra, strawberries,etc. etc.

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I will keep the okra recipe for when I pick some.  Thanks.  All the okra
info is great.  I put each seed into a separate cell pack thing, so
hopefully it won't get too upset when it's time to transplant.  It's
planted, and sitting in the warmest place in the house, which isn't that
warm, so we'll see...Now, about strawberries, I just planted some seeds
from Le Jardin des Gourmet, in VT, but these are I think, wild ones, I
think they are called berries from the woods.  I don't think they send out
runners.  There weren't any directions, so I just pressed them into Jiffy
mix, since the seeds are very small.  My friend moved to New Mexico and
left me a big bag of Jiffy mix, so it's the first time I'm using it.  I
always made my own primitive mix before.  I will feed the seedlings a lot
sooner than when I used a combo of peat & sterile soil.   Any comments
after the fact?
Now, about poor Stan:  I used to get unsubscribed very often from a
houseplant list, and the "ListMom" said she didn't do it, and in fact it
was my ISP sending an unsubscribe message to her computer.  They said it
wasn't them, so I just said forget it, and that's how I came to this list,
which I am happy to say I have not gotten kicked out of.  So thank you very
much.  This one is more fun, anyway.  

As far as broccoli sprouts, I wonder just how much we can believe about how
good they really are.  It seems like every year there is something else
that you should be eating tons of to stay alive, or things that you should
stay away from to stay alive.  Then, a few years later, these same things
are in the opposite side of the column.  Like eggs and red meat. Now they
are saying that they are not bad and you should have a little of these
because there are good things in them.  But if you want these sprouts, we
only want to make you happy...make sure you are not using treated seed, and
if I remember correctly, you take a jar, like a quart size mayo job, and
you put a teaspoon of the seeds in the jar, and then you put cheesecloth or
other thin fabric on top with a rubber band.  Then you pour in clean water,
not too cool and not hot.  Room temp, if I recall correctly.  (Take from
the cold H20 faucet and let it sit). I think that 2 times daily you rinse
the seeds and pour out most of it.  Help!   There must be somebody who is a
product of the 70's who remembers this process better than I.... 	

Bermuda in the bed!  You can take out the good plants and solarize the bed
by covering it with clear plastic for a couple of months.  If you just have
compost, after a few years it breaks down and you just have humic acid - or
is it fumic acid?  If you don't use it you lose it.  

To Tom with the excess seeds:  if you look in a book that was published by
Organic Gardening, a veggie growing book, it tells you how long you can
save seeds of each kind of veggie.  Also, a few years ago, I planted a
whole lot of green pepper seed that had been stuck in a drawer 12 years ago,
and not finished.  I planted them all, thinking that maybe I'd get a few to
germinate, since the seeds were OLD!  Well, they ALL grew, and then I had
to find homes for them all!   In other words, the seeds can last a very
long time, if saved correctly.

 I would not put peppers or tomatoes in a cold frame now, because they are
very cold sensitive.  When it isn't so cloudy and cold, I've stuck flats of
seedlings in the back of a hatchback parked to get the most sunlight on
them - don't drive around with them in there or you will have a very dirty
vehicle and no plants.  but unless it didn't get cold at night, I'd take
them back in.  We had to get rid of that car, though, so I can't do it. 
You have to crack the windows if you do it, or they will all get cooked.  I
think the sunlight is better than the fake light. I also do not make the
seedlings take a nap, you can leave the light on all night. Put the lights
closer to the seedlings.  Watch out for the ends of the light tubes - they
don't give enough light.  I usually rotate the flats around, or I put
something there like lettuce that is more forgiving of low light.  

So far, my dahlias, ageratum, cosmos, and CABBAGE are up and at 'em.  We
had 6 inches of snow here yesterday.  We had no snow for the whole winter. 
Just one snow in the fall, and now yesterday!  Figure that!  Lauren Z6 NY
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